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director that bush had the same director of operations that bush had john brennan who is president obama's new designee to be the cia director and until what a week ago or so was the deputy national security adviser was under president bush the director of the national counterterrorism center and up to his eyeballs in torture policy so even though we changed presidents there was really no change of intelligence advisors at least not on counterterrorism john brennan you mentioned john brennan and i want to ask you about him the future head of the c.i. what kind of a cia chief is he going to be in your opinion i think he's going to be somebody who will be extremely aggressive and who will probably be comfortable. walking on the edge of the law you worked with him i did i worked with john brennan for many years and i know him pretty well. mr kaplan you yourself supported torture before you were against it what happened what changed your position well let me correct you on that and this is something that that i think most americans missed in my original n.b.c. interview i was trying to draw a
director that bush had the same director of operations that bush had john brennan who is president obama's new designee to be the cia director and until what a week ago or so was the deputy national security adviser was under president bush the director of the national counterterrorism center and up to his eyeballs in torture policy so even though we changed presidents there was really no change of intelligence advisors at least not on counterterrorism john brennan you mentioned john brennan...
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they want president obama to do more to protect the environment. alan fisher is there. make it toeople will the national mall to protest against climate change. they say the warning signs are already there. hurricanes and the teaching everyone the problems ahead for the united states. what brings you here on a very cold day to the national mall? >> i have children. i worry about their future. i'm not about climate change for 30 years because my husband is a scientist. other than not eating meat and riding a bicycle, what can we possibly do? i was compelled to become a political activist about two years ago a and he is here with me today to be part of the crowd to help get obama energized to bring change, even if congress will not. the best way to change the climate is with a carbon tax. >> many people say here barack obama has done a reasonable job and it comes to confronting climate change but he could be doing more. faugh and won him to stop pushing off from behind to do more to alter the course of america and the world -- they want him to stop pushing up from behind.
they want president obama to do more to protect the environment. alan fisher is there. make it toeople will the national mall to protest against climate change. they say the warning signs are already there. hurricanes and the teaching everyone the problems ahead for the united states. what brings you here on a very cold day to the national mall? >> i have children. i worry about their future. i'm not about climate change for 30 years because my husband is a scientist. other than not...
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president obama has just issued an emergency declaration for the state of connecticut. the entire northeast is beginning dig out from up to three feet of snow. at least nine deaths are blamed on a storm that pounded the region this weekend. power crews working to restore electricity to 400,000 resident. all major airports are starting to resume flights after more than 5,000 were canceled because of the blizzard. >>> the los angeles police chief says he is reopening an investigation into the termination of former officer christopher dorner. dorner is still at large, suspected in the killings of three people. the search for him has focused on the san berardino mountains after his pickup was found burning there. in a manifesto, he declared war on the lapd and their families after a firing. >>> and this just in. a report is disputing allegations that he covered up child sex abuse by jerry sandusky. the report, released this hour, calls the findings of an earlier investigation conducted on balance of penn state "factually wrong, speculative and fundamentally wrong." joe pate
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president obama has just issued an emergency declaration for the state of connecticut. the entire northeast is starting to dig out from up to three feet of snow. at least nine deaths are blamed on the storm that pounded the region this weekend. power crews are working to restore electricity to more than 350,000 people. all major airports have resumed flights after more than 5,000 were canceled because of the blizzard. >>> the search has resumed in california's san bernadino mountains for ex-los angeles cop christopher dorner. dorner is a suspect in the killing of three people, including a police officer. in a manifesto pe declared war on l.a. police officers and their families because he was fired from the force in 2008. a report commissioned by the family of joe paterno is absorbing the late coach of cover-up allegations in the jerry sandusky child sex abuse case. the report calls the findings of an earlier investigation conducted for penn state, quote, factually wrong, speculative and fundamentally flawed. in a separate letter to the school's former football plays his
president obama has just issued an emergency declaration for the state of connecticut. the entire northeast is starting to dig out from up to three feet of snow. at least nine deaths are blamed on the storm that pounded the region this weekend. power crews are working to restore electricity to more than 350,000 people. all major airports have resumed flights after more than 5,000 were canceled because of the blizzard. >>> the search has resumed in california's san bernadino mountains...
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but yet you go to prison because he talked about it why do you think this administration president obama who signed an executive order to stop torture at the very beginning of his first term why do you think he's protecting folks from the previous administration most people don't realize this but president obama has surrounded himself with the same intelligence advisors who advised president bush through most of the first term the cia had the same deputy director that bush had the same director of operations that bush had john brennan who is president obama's new designee to be the cia director and until what a week ago or so was the deputy national security adviser was under president bush the director of the national counterterrorism center and up to his eyeballs in torture policy so even though we changed presidents there was really no change of intelligence advisors at least not on counterterrorism john brennan you mentioned john brennan and i want to ask you about him the future head of the cia what kind of a cia chief is he going to be in your opinion i think he's going to be someb
but yet you go to prison because he talked about it why do you think this administration president obama who signed an executive order to stop torture at the very beginning of his first term why do you think he's protecting folks from the previous administration most people don't realize this but president obama has surrounded himself with the same intelligence advisors who advised president bush through most of the first term the cia had the same deputy director that bush had the same director...
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corruption and an abuse of the process the obama administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of national security bring up or not our team new york. the cia veteran who revealed america's top program gets thirty months in jail but has spoken to r.t. about what led him to blow the whistle and why the government was so eager to get him behind bars the full interview next. the way. i. was able to build the most sophisticated. tim's mission to teach me the creation of. this is why you should. only. john kiriakou will with me today a former cia official who blew the whistle on the agency's torture practices after nine eleven john kiriakou served as the chief of counterterrorist operations in pakistan mystically are always were totally praised at the agency for his role in the capture of abu zubaydah who back in two thousa
corruption and an abuse of the process the obama administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of national security bring up or not our team new york. the cia veteran who revealed america's top program gets thirty months in...
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lou: the obama -- obama propaganda machine insists jobs have never fallen below priority number one despite the president's preoccupation with gun control, comprehensive immigration reform. ed henry has our report. >> well president obama only use the word jobs twice in his inaugural address, his team is now building tuesday's big speech as it continues a major push on the economy. >> you will hear the president's state of the union l1 from him for his plan to create jobs and grow the middle class. the president has viewed the two speeches, the inaugural address the state of the union as 2x in the same plate. >> that has featured lots of scenes with the president focusing instead on gun-control, immigration reform, and other issues. headlines this weekend about the president pivoting back to jobs, of frays republicans say the effort nearly a dozen times since mr. obama first tried to put it back from health care. >> the president spent most of his first term avoiding the issues americans cared about most. what i'm suggesting is you got to the same thing this time around. >> white house offi
lou: the obama -- obama propaganda machine insists jobs have never fallen below priority number one despite the president's preoccupation with gun control, comprehensive immigration reform. ed henry has our report. >> well president obama only use the word jobs twice in his inaugural address, his team is now building tuesday's big speech as it continues a major push on the economy. >> you will hear the president's state of the union l1 from him for his plan to create jobs and grow...
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published about the relationship with president obama and the drones. the rolling stone article says, -- i would have thought this temperment -- a camp passion not man i would have thought he would handle it differently but the use of drone has gone up exponentially and the impact on both societies has been devastating. so, some way we need to connect the dots, some way we need to say people who are pressing the button in the midwest or far west in the united states, and across the world. entire families and communities and women and children, people going to a funeral, people going to wedding party, are being blown up, and then here we sit, collateral damage, there nor civilians being killed. we need to connect these two very different worlds and see ultimately, is that what we, the united states of america, stand for? is that what we're exporting to the world? >> host: how do we connect with that in your view? sunny think the debate has to begin and the debate has to be multidimensional. more than just about security and about legality. it is that. it
published about the relationship with president obama and the drones. the rolling stone article says, -- i would have thought this temperment -- a camp passion not man i would have thought he would handle it differently but the use of drone has gone up exponentially and the impact on both societies has been devastating. so, some way we need to connect the dots, some way we need to say people who are pressing the button in the midwest or far west in the united states, and across the world....
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and it was thought that john brennan the man picked by president obama to head the cia would be an easy confirmation but one senator is bound to block brennan from that post what rand paul is demanding coming up. and it's a battle of david and goliath proportions monsanto versus small farmers coming up a look at the biotech giants battle with small farmers over seeds. it's thursday february fourteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. we began zeroing in on a massive piece of equipment that could transform the way the military conducts its missions drones have made their way into the mainstream conversation as senators demand more transparency on the thus far secret drone campaign as of now we have a drone bases in places like pakistan and djibouti africa and as covert drone warfare becomes a critical foreign policy strategy we can expect even more of these bases to pop up but what if you didn't need to set up a base in these volatile countries well that could be the case of drone aircraft carriers were put to use you are looking at the navy's x. fort
and it was thought that john brennan the man picked by president obama to head the cia would be an easy confirmation but one senator is bound to block brennan from that post what rand paul is demanding coming up. and it's a battle of david and goliath proportions monsanto versus small farmers coming up a look at the biotech giants battle with small farmers over seeds. it's thursday february fourteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. we began zeroing in on a...
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drone attacks ordered by obama have spiked particularly in yemen, somalia, afghanistan, and notably pakistan where over 360 drone strikes over the nine years, 2004 to 2013, have killed over 3,000 people. this data is not classified. and not even secret. but it is troubling. so troubling that the u.n. has just decided to launch an investigation on the impacts of drone strikes on thousands of civilians. question. will the u.n. human rights council rule that drone use violates international law do you think, pat buchanan? >> i don't think they l. if they do, john, it doesn't make any difference. but we really ought to be concerned about these drones. they're a tremendously effective weapon. they save our pilots and the rest of it. but the collateral damage, the killing of civilians, the killing of children, the tremendous alienation they've increased all over this region has resulted in al-qaida frankly getting a tremendous number of new recruits. are we recruiting more enemies than we're killing? that's the key question when you look to see how al-qaida is no longer just in afghanistan but six
drone attacks ordered by obama have spiked particularly in yemen, somalia, afghanistan, and notably pakistan where over 360 drone strikes over the nine years, 2004 to 2013, have killed over 3,000 people. this data is not classified. and not even secret. but it is troubling. so troubling that the u.n. has just decided to launch an investigation on the impacts of drone strikes on thousands of civilians. question. will the u.n. human rights council rule that drone use violates international law do...
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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: president obama took his push for tighter gun control laws on the road today to a police department in minnesota. good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we get reaction to the president's proposal to ban assault weapons and institute universal background checks from two local law enforcement officials. >> brown: then, we have the story of a navy seal, a sniper in the iraq war and best-selling author who was gunned down by a fellow veteran at a shooting range in texas. >> ifill: margaret warner looks at how ancient manuscripts in mali were saved, hidden from destruction during the conflict with islamist rebels. >> brown: what makes a great teacher? hari sreenivasan reports on a charter school in connecticut that uses a checklist to evaluate and keep the best of them in the classroom. >> we have parents, students, peer and principal surveys, so the teachers are really getting a whole 360 take on what they are doing well and what they need to improve. >> ifill: the 500-year-old bo
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: president obama took his push for tighter gun control laws on the road today to a police department in minnesota. good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we get reaction to the president's proposal to ban assault weapons and institute universal background checks from two local law enforcement officials. >> brown: then, we have the story of a navy seal, a sniper in the...
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the obama administration introduced a new disposal plant in january. but it won't be implemented until 2048. 35 years from now. finding a place to safely store nuclear waste was never going to be easy. the accident at fukushima has made it that much harder. this issue goes beyond whether japan should abolish nuclear energy. whatever the decision, this country and others have to deal with enormous amounts of waste and will have to do so for many years to come. >> that was nhk world's youchiro osaki. >>> pakistan is facing an energy shortage and partnering with iran in hoping of finding a solution. we're following the story from bangkok. >>> pakistan is cooperating with iran to import natural gas from the country. the pakistani government again pledged commitment to the project on thursday. but the announcement raises questions of the plant's impact on relations with the u.s. nhk world reports from islamabad. >> reporter: the pakistani government plans to build a pipeline in iran. construction is already under way on the iranian side of the border. the u
the obama administration introduced a new disposal plant in january. but it won't be implemented until 2048. 35 years from now. finding a place to safely store nuclear waste was never going to be easy. the accident at fukushima has made it that much harder. this issue goes beyond whether japan should abolish nuclear energy. whatever the decision, this country and others have to deal with enormous amounts of waste and will have to do so for many years to come. >> that was nhk world's...
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." >>> barack obama has some unfinished business. the u.s. president says the hard work of millions of americans has not been rewarded and he says it's time to reunite the engine of economic growth. he promised to work on behalf of the middle class in his state of the union address. >> it is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country, the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, no matter what you look like or who you love. >> obama made the address before a joint session of congress. he said his first priority is making the country a magnet for new jobs in manufacturing. he said some of those jobs could come through investment and clean energy. he said the extreme weather americans have seen should remind them they need to do more to combat climate change. obama said america will remain the anchor of strong alliances around the world, as he outlined threats from abroad. he criticized north korean leaders a day after they carried out another nucl
." >>> barack obama has some unfinished business. the u.s. president says the hard work of millions of americans has not been rewarded and he says it's time to reunite the engine of economic growth. he promised to work on behalf of the middle class in his state of the union address. >> it is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country, the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from,...
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sure i mean the fact that under the obama administration there have been three americans including a sixteen year old boy bill born in denver who have been killed by u.s. drones overseas with no acknowledge and knowledge meant by the united states never any indictment i don't think a sixteen year old is a high level leader of al qaeda and then the congress people have been asking will controls be used to kill people here in the united states and they have never so far gotten a no so as far as we understand it americans have been killed overseas with these drones without any kind of judicial process and the same kind of thing can happen it appears here in the united states why is it illegal for the government to wiretap somebody in the united states without a court warrant but we don't know can a drone be used against them to kill them well actually we know that it could be done overseas so why couldn't it be done here at home i would say it's indeed a very slippery slope and a very dangerous and scary slope ok christopher go back to. the slippery slope. no i mean there certainly is p
sure i mean the fact that under the obama administration there have been three americans including a sixteen year old boy bill born in denver who have been killed by u.s. drones overseas with no acknowledge and knowledge meant by the united states never any indictment i don't think a sixteen year old is a high level leader of al qaeda and then the congress people have been asking will controls be used to kill people here in the united states and they have never so far gotten a no so as far as...
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and just because he happens to be nobel peace prize winner barack obama most americans who haven't paid much attention have just bought iraq obama because i think it's a question of education here domestically execute people need to be informed that hollywood have a role to play i think hollywood had a role to play i think that zero dark thirty for example did a grave disservice to counterterrorism zero dark thirty perpetuates this grand lie that torture led to the. the killing of osama bin laden it's just simply not true myths often become history and one comedian here said movies it was about zero dark thirty about the way it's serious movies is where americans learned their history it's true what myths what other myths do you see being perpetuated now related to the war on terror i think one of the great myths and i chuckle to myself because it always seemed so ridiculous to me was president bush's statement that they hate us because we love freedom. i know al-qaeda i've captured al qaeda fighters i've had conversations sitting across the table like i am with you with al qaeda leader
and just because he happens to be nobel peace prize winner barack obama most americans who haven't paid much attention have just bought iraq obama because i think it's a question of education here domestically execute people need to be informed that hollywood have a role to play i think hollywood had a role to play i think that zero dark thirty for example did a grave disservice to counterterrorism zero dark thirty perpetuates this grand lie that torture led to the. the killing of osama bin...
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sure i mean the fact that under the obama administration there have been three americans including a sixteen year old boy bill born in denver who have been killed by u.s. drones overseas with no acknowledge and knowledge meant by the united states never any indictment i don't think a sixteen year old is a high level leader of al qaeda and then the congress people have been asking will controls be used to kill people here in the united states and they have never so far gotten a no so as far as we understand it americans have been killed overseas with these drones without any kind of judicial process and the same kind of thing can happen it appears here in the united states why is it illegal for the government to wiretap somebody in the united states without a court warrant but we don't know can a drone be used against them to kill them well actually we know that it could be done overseas so why couldn't it be done here at home i would say it's indeed a very slippery slope and a very dangerous and scary slope ok christopher go back to. the slippery slope. no i mean there certainly is p
sure i mean the fact that under the obama administration there have been three americans including a sixteen year old boy bill born in denver who have been killed by u.s. drones overseas with no acknowledge and knowledge meant by the united states never any indictment i don't think a sixteen year old is a high level leader of al qaeda and then the congress people have been asking will controls be used to kill people here in the united states and they have never so far gotten a no so as far as...
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is obama the right man? do you like what you see for maybe the second term obama already? >> i love the man. i voted for him originally. in the meeting everybody was a big supporter. i said i love your heart. i know you care. i voted for you the first time. i said i'd love to know how it will be different when there's such demonization going on. i think that's the significant problem in our country. it's not one person. we used to be able to have a dialogue. now it's you're right, you're wrong. so i said a conversation with him. if i said you think the solution that you're telling me you're going to do in your next term is you're going to raise taxes on the wealthiest, i'm more than willing to pay that. i said that will raise $80 billion. it's even less because they cut from 250 higher, as you know, the cut-off date. that will country for eight days. that's not even going to scratch the trillion. what else are we going to do? he said i think the republicans will have me to kick around. there's not an election and we'll start working together. there's no chance of coming wi
is obama the right man? do you like what you see for maybe the second term obama already? >> i love the man. i voted for him originally. in the meeting everybody was a big supporter. i said i love your heart. i know you care. i voted for you the first time. i said i'd love to know how it will be different when there's such demonization going on. i think that's the significant problem in our country. it's not one person. we used to be able to have a dialogue. now it's you're right, you're...
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and president obama took a mini vacation over the weekend to south florida but the white house press corps is up in arms after being denied coverage of obama and tiger woods playing golf together but why does the media really care about who the president plays golf with aren't there more pressing issues they should care about. taking to the streets over the weekend thousands turn out in washington d.c. to protest the keystone x.l. pipeline they hope president obama blocks the plan but will he disappoint his liberal environmentalist base we'll ask that question coming up. it's monday february eighteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. . harsh words coming from afghan president hamid karzai today enough is enough in the wake of an airstrike that left ten civilians dead last week president karzai has issued a decree banning afghan security forces from requesting international air strikes during operations in residential areas for quite some time now nato and afghan security forces have teamed up to conduct counterterrorism operations that relied heav
and president obama took a mini vacation over the weekend to south florida but the white house press corps is up in arms after being denied coverage of obama and tiger woods playing golf together but why does the media really care about who the president plays golf with aren't there more pressing issues they should care about. taking to the streets over the weekend thousands turn out in washington d.c. to protest the keystone x.l. pipeline they hope president obama blocks the plan but will he...
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president obama says john allen is one of the finest military leaders a true patriot and a man i have come to respect greatly. >> incredible video showing the terrifying moments the russian meteorite hit the school gym full of children. the tear fied students sent running for their lives and glass is flying. it is believed dwoins were smashed out after a sonic boom. luckily everyone in the building was okay. more than 1500 people were injured through out the city when this happened. >> time is running out for lawmakers to reach a deal to avoid looming spending cuts. there are nine days left. president obama is blaming republicans now even though the sec questions tore was their idea. >> if republicans and congress want to make a deal they will make a deal but look at the calendar 9 days is not much time to find middle ground on new taxes that republicans doon't want or replacement cuts the white house doesn't want. senior administration officials say the devastating automatic cuts that go along with the see questor this year are more than likely to kick in. >> now democrats and congre
president obama says john allen is one of the finest military leaders a true patriot and a man i have come to respect greatly. >> incredible video showing the terrifying moments the russian meteorite hit the school gym full of children. the tear fied students sent running for their lives and glass is flying. it is believed dwoins were smashed out after a sonic boom. luckily everyone in the building was okay. more than 1500 people were injured through out the city when this happened....
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sure i mean the fact that under the obama administration there have been three americans including a sixteen year old boy bill born in denver who have been killed by u.s. drones overseas with no acknowledgement of knowledge meant by the united states never any indictment i don't think a sixteen year old is a high level leader of al qaeda and then the congress people have been asking will controls be used to kill people here in the united states and they have never so far gotten a no so as far as we understand it americans have been killed overseas with these drones without any kind of judicial process and the same kind of thing can happen it appears here in the united states why is it illegal for the government to wiretap somebody in the united states without a court warrant but we don't know can a drone be used against them to kill them well actually we know that it could be done overseas so why couldn't it be done here at home i would say it's indeed a very slippery slope and a very dangerous and scary slope ok chris ship on your back to. the slippery slope . no i mean there certai
sure i mean the fact that under the obama administration there have been three americans including a sixteen year old boy bill born in denver who have been killed by u.s. drones overseas with no acknowledgement of knowledge meant by the united states never any indictment i don't think a sixteen year old is a high level leader of al qaeda and then the congress people have been asking will controls be used to kill people here in the united states and they have never so far gotten a no so as far...
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obama kept to his schedule, thinking that, on this night, it was better to have reporters drinking and laughing than asking questions. when did you first hear that the president had approved your mission? >> owen: the commanding officer of our... our command walked in and said, "hey, just got off the phone. the mission's approved." >> pelley: what did you think? >> owen: "this is big. this is cool. i'm glad i'm a part of it." >> pelley: the raid was supposed to be april 30, but the weather was bad. the next night, vice admiral william mcraven saw the men off. he was a seal, and he had planned the mission as head of the joint special operations command. just before midnight, the blackhawks started the sprint from the u.s. base in jalalabad, afghanistan, to abbottabad, about 150 miles away. the helicopters were blacked out against a clear, moonless night. the army pilots, guided by night vision goggles, flew high speed, treetop level, under pakistani radar. >> owen: it was roughly an hour and a half. i remember... you know, we took off, shut the doors, and... and the radio call i heard w
obama kept to his schedule, thinking that, on this night, it was better to have reporters drinking and laughing than asking questions. when did you first hear that the president had approved your mission? >> owen: the commanding officer of our... our command walked in and said, "hey, just got off the phone. the mission's approved." >> pelley: what did you think? >> owen: "this is big. this is cool. i'm glad i'm a part of it." >> pelley: the raid was...
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the most important thing if he and president obama are a good team, that is what matters. i don't worry about the policy positions. one way or another. he's not going to be a policy maker. president's policy is going go. but the fact that they feel that they can be a good team, to me that's an important thing. unless the.nominates somebody who is just, in my mind, unqualified or something. i tend to think leader should get who they want. we'll hold them responsible for the outcome. >> thank you, general mcchrystal. we have to stop now. [applause] >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback twitter.com/booktv. here's a list of the ten best selling non-fiction e-book and print tiemghts according to the "new york times." it reflects sales aves january 31st. she appeared on booktv to discuss her book. and you can watch her discussion online at book of it -- booktv.org. lawrence wright debuts on the list third with the look to the world of church of scientology in going clear. scientology in hollywood. no. 4 bill they recount the assassination of john f kennedy. it's
the most important thing if he and president obama are a good team, that is what matters. i don't worry about the policy positions. one way or another. he's not going to be a policy maker. president's policy is going go. but the fact that they feel that they can be a good team, to me that's an important thing. unless the.nominates somebody who is just, in my mind, unqualified or something. i tend to think leader should get who they want. we'll hold them responsible for the outcome. >>...
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do you think bush and cheney had kennedy's sense you think obama does. play. live. play. live. player play. play. please. more news today violence has once again flared up if these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all today please. base is based on. you know care resident to. play. the music. concert the show to the to sing we've just heard a studio raise the money is devoted to the debate which is busy dividing the united states the same with big mass shootings from the results a to say me look split while someone in the midst of the bloodshed on this one comes to come is coming is there an absence of the simplest celeb.
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president obama's big pick for cia director up for con fir make in a few hours. but will members of his own party derail it? >> i don't know. >> lots of drama. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm zoraida sambolinment. >> i'm john berman. it's thursday, february 7th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's get started. up first, brace yourselves, bundle up, buy a shovel. this will be a big one. at this moment a blaizzard watc is in effects for new england. a storm is headed that way and could be historihistoric. it could drop two feet of snow in some places and it all starts tomorrow. you told us this was coming yesterday, you were on top of this one. >> we're trying. boston could rival its worst blizzard from 2003 which had 27 1/2 inches. all of this talks about two storm systems coming together. the first one here, notice in the south, all instability, a tornado warming out there for plaquemines parish. this is moving off to the east. we will watch this produce heavy showers even through atlanta. a low will form, become a rain and wind event as it moves across or n
president obama's big pick for cia director up for con fir make in a few hours. but will members of his own party derail it? >> i don't know. >> lots of drama. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm zoraida sambolinment. >> i'm john berman. it's thursday, february 7th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's get started. up first, brace yourselves, bundle up, buy a shovel. this will be a big one. at this moment a blaizzard watc is in effects for new england. a storm is...
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you know president obama has worked. europeans and so there are now these multilateral sanctions in place but the reality is that the majority of our sanctions are the us telling our allies what they can and cannot do regarding iran and when it comes to you know china india or you know afghanistan and iraq we may reach a point where those countries are no longer willing to sort of toed the line and go against their own interests in order to adhere to a sanctions policy that increasingly doesn't look like it's actually aimed at resolving the nuclear issue but looks at sort of this looks like this sort of long term. containment policy designed to turn iran economically into another you know north korea to malabo a policy director for the national iranian american council thank you so much for joining us thank you. from afghanistan to cuba now where the judge overseeing the second round of pretrial hearings for the nine eleven terror suspects has ordered the u.s. government to remove the offstage censorship equipment from t
you know president obama has worked. europeans and so there are now these multilateral sanctions in place but the reality is that the majority of our sanctions are the us telling our allies what they can and cannot do regarding iran and when it comes to you know china india or you know afghanistan and iraq we may reach a point where those countries are no longer willing to sort of toed the line and go against their own interests in order to adhere to a sanctions policy that increasingly doesn't...
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do you think bush and cheney had kennedy's sense you think obama does. choose your language. killing a kid with zero in federal custody still some other. treatments that can send. to the opinions that you think. choose to stories they didn't. choose to be access to. i never knew adam lanza in person but i was in the same high school as that and he was younger than me just a little bit younger. i always thought he was different i always into something funny he rarely talks and you don't he was a shy kid. i don't know anyone who was friends with him i also don't know of anyone who was particularly mean to the what i do know is that it was very clear that this person was not like everybody else. can imagine the level of mental illness that would be present to murder children. america's you know so many goings there would be an american behind every tree with a gun. for kids growing up in this environment is good for them at an early age to least see the gun and respected because they need to know what kind of damage it can do. this is our first task as a society. keeping our chi
do you think bush and cheney had kennedy's sense you think obama does. choose your language. killing a kid with zero in federal custody still some other. treatments that can send. to the opinions that you think. choose to stories they didn't. choose to be access to. i never knew adam lanza in person but i was in the same high school as that and he was younger than me just a little bit younger. i always thought he was different i always into something funny he rarely talks and you don't he was a...
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she told me president obama would like to talk to you. at that point. i was just kind of sitting there going, okay. just clint romesha, this is weird. and i just remember telling him that, for me, it's not about me it was everybody that day. so many other guys that day made this happen. >> are you uncomfortable receiving the medal of honor in. >> i was doing a job. and i know that there's so many great soldiers out there that would have stepped in to my shoes and done the same thing. i just feel that, i just did a job. >> but that job on that day was horrific. eight friends killed. more than 20 wounded. other survivors suffer from p t posttraumatic stress disorder. one soldier with horrifying ptsd who served with romesha died from a drug overdose. they are to no small degree hau haunted. >> how much is afghanistan in the rearview mirror for you? >> i still reflect on my time in afghanistan. but when i'm doing that, i'm thinking of the quirky littl
she told me president obama would like to talk to you. at that point. i was just kind of sitting there going, okay. just clint romesha, this is weird. and i just remember telling him that, for me, it's not about me it was everybody that day. so many other guys that day made this happen. >> are you uncomfortable receiving the medal of honor in. >> i was doing a job. and i know that there's so many great soldiers out there that would have stepped in to my shoes and done the same...
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americans are preparing to tune in to the president's big speech barack obama is about to make his state of the union address is expected to focus on the economic recovery of the middle class ignoring crucial issues like secretive u.s. drone strikes that are just ahead here in. new hope outgoing pope benedict the sixteenth says he won't have a. choice of successor with the catholic church at a crossroads following the surprise resignation announcement. so those stories still to come for you between now and the start of the next hour in the meantime it is business with katie. and understand that peace has been made no currency wars is that right well apparently said the g seven seven of the world's biggest economy is they've said that they're not going to engage in these so-called currency walls pushing down the valley of their cars in order to growth it's not effect save in the grand scale of things in terms of boosting growth for the whole of the world economy so they vowed not to do that so i'll be back with business about a minute so it's a bell i get it thank you. some countries want
americans are preparing to tune in to the president's big speech barack obama is about to make his state of the union address is expected to focus on the economic recovery of the middle class ignoring crucial issues like secretive u.s. drone strikes that are just ahead here in. new hope outgoing pope benedict the sixteenth says he won't have a. choice of successor with the catholic church at a crossroads following the surprise resignation announcement. so those stories still to come for you...
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well from drone strikes to torture techniques tough questions are in store for barack obama's nominee for the cia head at his confirmation hearing in the senate which has just kicked off now it's already been interrupted by protests but it has now resume john brennan is widely seen as an architect of the u.s. drone strategy in an effort to avoid scrutiny around brennan's can of the see the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror suspects abroad now that is after years of keeping it a secret as art and its you can reports confirmation might broaden the horizons for america's drone fleet. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing north america by loudly nice to see and keep you from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long docum
well from drone strikes to torture techniques tough questions are in store for barack obama's nominee for the cia head at his confirmation hearing in the senate which has just kicked off now it's already been interrupted by protests but it has now resume john brennan is widely seen as an architect of the u.s. drone strategy in an effort to avoid scrutiny around brennan's can of the see the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror...
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senate hearings are underway for president obama's controversial pick to be the new chief of the cia already the sessions have been interrupted due to protests by activists angry the man behind america's infamous drawing program could become head of the agency. political chaos in tunisia anti-government protests turned into violent clashes with police and the ruling islamist blog the prime minister's plan to form a coalition government. the countdown to the next winter olympics begins that's exactly one year until russia hosts its first ever winter games that promises to become the most unique and the most expensive in history. but not everyone is in a celebrate torrie mood russia's president lashes out at overspending and sacks a key figure behind the two thousand and fourteen games. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r.t. certainly glad to have you with us. now from drone strikes to torture techniques barack obama's nominee for head of the cia is facing tough questions in the senate confirmation hearing this session is under way again after it was disrupted by
senate hearings are underway for president obama's controversial pick to be the new chief of the cia already the sessions have been interrupted due to protests by activists angry the man behind america's infamous drawing program could become head of the agency. political chaos in tunisia anti-government protests turned into violent clashes with police and the ruling islamist blog the prime minister's plan to form a coalition government. the countdown to the next winter olympics begins that's...
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and as an obama supporter of course i was shocked to find out who was crowned be kept on as obama secretary of defense but when he told people i found interesting and was the major reason i wanted to write this book and what he said was we are moving towards a smaller military that will do fewer things and be able to go fewer places which he felt was a terrible thing and he added i don't want to be a part of that kind of system that is going to retrench. my feeling has been we need a smaller military that will do fewer things and go to fewer places. so that is the kind of book i wanted to write. i thought that i should do it even though others have really had ma named a lot of this. i am sure you are familiar with the work of d-nd for example, who wrote things such as the american empire and years before that, john neuhaus, one of my favorite writers wrote in imperial america and other books have dealt with this with an unusual background in the sense that i spent 42 years in the government and the state department, defense department and the cia have security clearances for that entire len
and as an obama supporter of course i was shocked to find out who was crowned be kept on as obama secretary of defense but when he told people i found interesting and was the major reason i wanted to write this book and what he said was we are moving towards a smaller military that will do fewer things and be able to go fewer places which he felt was a terrible thing and he added i don't want to be a part of that kind of system that is going to retrench. my feeling has been we need a smaller...
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. >>> number two now, the obama administration is urging the supreme court to strike down a federal law that denies benefits to married same sex couples. the defense of marriage act or doma describes marriage only between a man or woman. in a brief timed, doma treats gay and lesbian couples unequally violating the constitution. the court will hear argument next month. >>> last week, revealed a nuclear waste tank at a washington facility was leaking. now the governor says six tanks at the hanford nuclear site are leaking toxic sludge. he says there's no immediate health risk to the public but calls the leak disturbing. the facility is considered to be the nation's most contaminated nuclear site. >>> number four now. the pentagon grounded the entire fleet of f-35 fighter jets because a crack was found in the engine of one of the planes dungbillion, the f-35 program is the most expensive weapon system in military history. number five, police are on an intense manhunt foreign the occupants of a range rover involved in a las vegas shooting. shots fired from that car killed the driver of a ma
. >>> number two now, the obama administration is urging the supreme court to strike down a federal law that denies benefits to married same sex couples. the defense of marriage act or doma describes marriage only between a man or woman. in a brief timed, doma treats gay and lesbian couples unequally violating the constitution. the court will hear argument next month. >>> last week, revealed a nuclear waste tank at a washington facility was leaking. now the governor says six...
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and tomorrow, president obama will present him with a medal of honor. you'll hear his firsthand account of one of the bloodiest battles of the war. so...how'd it go? well, dad, i spent my childhood living with monks learning the art of dealmaking. you've mastered monkey-style kung fu? no. priceline is different now. you don't even have to bid. master hahn taught you all that? oh, and he says to say (translated from cantonese) "you still owe him five bucks." your accent needs a little work. that your mouth is under attack, from food particles and bacteria. try fixodent. it helps create a food seal defense for a clean mouth and kills bacteria for fresh breath. ♪ fixodent, and forget it. then you're going to love this. right now they're only $14.95! wow-a grt deal just got a whole lot better. hurry. $14.95 won't last. >>> today, u.s. marine general joseph dunnford replaces general john allen, who will oversee the first two years of the war and the withdrawal of nearly all troonls. >>> heroic actions in one of the bloodiest battles in the war of afghanist
and tomorrow, president obama will present him with a medal of honor. you'll hear his firsthand account of one of the bloodiest battles of the war. so...how'd it go? well, dad, i spent my childhood living with monks learning the art of dealmaking. you've mastered monkey-style kung fu? no. priceline is different now. you don't even have to bid. master hahn taught you all that? oh, and he says to say (translated from cantonese) "you still owe him five bucks." your accent needs a little...
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confirming the obama administration but confirming john brennan and it's you director is. basically tape clean us all back to the same destructive policies that actually led to the american and to the near american defeat in the months down the same papa sees the end taking i say shit off allies we all know that you have to stay just work very closely with several countries in this region in order to secure afghanistan this included of course five stunt it included several countries in central asia it included russia and others but it with each of these countries the united states and the policies the kind of policies that the cia particular purse you would really in antagonized all of these key u.s. allies and made the u.s. mission in afghanistan very very difficult so by confirming and by picking john brennan the united states administration is basically is telling everybody you know what i will continue to do would pursue policies unilaterally and these policies would be quite similar to the ones that actually antagonize many of the americas though as in this region so
confirming the obama administration but confirming john brennan and it's you director is. basically tape clean us all back to the same destructive policies that actually led to the american and to the near american defeat in the months down the same papa sees the end taking i say shit off allies we all know that you have to stay just work very closely with several countries in this region in order to secure afghanistan this included of course five stunt it included several countries in central...
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. >>> in about an hour, president obama is going to head back to his old stomping grounds to visit hyde park academy on chicago's south side. his main focus, the economy, but he's as expected to talk about gun violence. more than 500 people were murdered in chicago last year. and tonight, "a.c. 360" is live from chicago. is it realistic to expect that the president's strategy will make any difference when it comes to gun violence? that's tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. >>> well, it may be as pretty as a postcard. the glistening white ship against a crystal blue sky but this isn't how more than 4,000 passengers and crew members aboard the carnival "triumph" are remembering their week-long nightmare that just ended hours ago. no, they were staggering off the ship that had minimal fire since an engine fire last sunday in the middle of the gulf of mexico. jammed the power and put them in darkness and set off the vacation from hell. whoa, are they hope to be back. if you were with us yesterday, you know that mobile, alabama, was in sight for, oh, i don't know, ten or more hours before t
. >>> in about an hour, president obama is going to head back to his old stomping grounds to visit hyde park academy on chicago's south side. his main focus, the economy, but he's as expected to talk about gun violence. more than 500 people were murdered in chicago last year. and tonight, "a.c. 360" is live from chicago. is it realistic to expect that the president's strategy will make any difference when it comes to gun violence? that's tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cnn....